Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

If you're waiting for the perfect moment, you'll never write a thing because it will never arrive. I have no routine. I have no foolproof anything. There's nothing foolproof.

When I am writing fiction, I believe I am much better organized, more methodical - one has to be when writing a novel. Writing poetry is a state of free float.

Extreme good, extreme evil: the abilities required are similar.

Don't eat anything you aren't prepared to kill. Don't kill anything you aren't prepared to eat.

The true story is vicious and multiple and untrue after all. Why do you need it? Don’t ever ask for the true story.

Gravity works in your life, the notion of free will works in your life, however problematic it may at times be.